Author Archives: Edward Dunne

About Edward Dunne

I am the Executive Editor of Mathematical Reviews. Previously, I was an editor for the AMS Book Program for 17 years. Before working for the AMS, I had an academic career working at Rice University, Oxford University, and Oklahoma State University. In 1990-91, I worked for Springer-Verlag in Heidelberg. My Ph.D. is from Harvard. I received a world-class liberal arts education as an undergraduate at Santa Clara University.

MR4000000

Posted on September 19, 2019 by Edward Dunne

Today, item number MR4000000 was added to MathSciNet. Hurray!  It is a paper on a local Jacquet-Langlands correspondence by Vincent Sécherre and Shaun Stevens, published in Compositio Mathematica. 

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3

Posted on September 18, 2019 by Edward Dunne

After posting about Booker and Sutherland’s cool expression of 42 as a sum of three cubes, Drew Sutherland wrote to say that they found a new way to write 3 as a sum of three cubes: $569936821221962380720^3 + (-569936821113563493509)^3 +  … Continue reading →

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42

Posted on September 11, 2019 by Edward Dunne

The number 42 is famous for its occurrence in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. In 2032, Adele might come out with a new album with 42 as its title.  But today, the fame of the number 42 has to … Continue reading →

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Alex Eskin wins 2020 Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics

Posted on September 6, 2019 by Edward Dunne

Alex Eskin has been awarded the 2020 Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics.  The short citation reads: For revolutionary discoveries in the dynamics and geometry of moduli spaces of Abelian differentials, including the proof of the “magic wand theorem” with Maryam Mirzakhani.  The … Continue reading →

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Everything in Its Right Place: An Expert Guide to Searching with MathSciNet, Part I

Posted on August 28, 2019 by Edward Dunne

In the September issue of the Notices Amer. Math. Soc., I have a column that is Part I of a guide to using MathSciNet.  This part focuses on Publications Searches, which are the most common searches.  Part 2 will be … Continue reading →

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MathSciNet demos at ICIAM 2019

Posted on July 19, 2019 by Edward Dunne

Besides free MathSciNet at ICIAM in Valencia, it is possible to have demos of how to use MathSciNet.

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ICIAM Prize Winners

Posted on July 16, 2019 by Edward Dunne

The winners of the ICIAM prizes were announced earlier. Here are links to their Author Profile Pages in MathSciNet.  At the opening ceremony for ICIAM, they received their prizes from Felipe VI of Spain, who then came out to the … Continue reading →

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Math Reviews at ICIAM 2019

Posted on July 11, 2019 by Edward Dunne

Mathematical Reviews will be at the ICIAM in Valencia next week, July 15-19.  Naturally, we will be at the AMS booth, which is at locations 7, 8, and 9 in the Exhibit Area. The AMS is sponsoring some extras at … Continue reading →

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Journal Profile Pages

Posted on June 10, 2019 by Edward Dunne

We have recently updated the Journal Profile Pages in MathSciNet to present the amazing information we have about the many journals Mathematical Reviews covers.  Whenever possible, we offer graphical formats for the data, as well as tables.  The Mathematical Reviews Database … Continue reading →

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For reviewers: review history

Posted on May 26, 2019 by Edward Dunne

We have added a feature for our reviewers:  an automatic listing of your review history. One of the most common requests we receive from our reviewers is for a list of their reviews that have been published on MathSciNet.  Now … Continue reading →

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